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The Roman army has been immortalised in heroic art and screen epics, but what was life really like for an ordinary soldier?
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Between 27 BCE and 476 CE a series of men became Roman Emperor, ruling a domain that stretched across Europe, North Africa and the Near ...
A revised edition of Robert Graves' classic translation (9780140449211), with completely fresh editorial material
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had ...
Here's how the history of the Roman Empire usually goes...
We start with Romulus, go on to Brutus overthrowing Tarquin, bounce through an appallingly ...
Discover the lives of the ancient Romans, pieced together from inscriptions, discarded letters, biographies and myth over two thousand years of history.
The Roman empire ...
A definitive history of ancient Rome that tells the story of its dramatic rise and fall in rich visual detail
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'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' - The Times
Long before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a ...
Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in ...
'Toner again spins a tale that is enjoyable and informative.' - The Times
Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his ...
A portrait of one of the ancient world's first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again
"This colorful biography of ...
A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453. In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known ...
'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David Aaronovitch, The Times
A Financial Times, BBC History and Spectator Book of the Year
On 8 June ...
Marcus Agrippa personified the term 'right-hand man'. As Emperor Augustus' deputy, he waged wars, pacified provinces, beautified Rome, and played a crucial role in laying ...
Publius Quinctilius Varus is famous as the incompetent commander duped into an ambush that wiped out three legions in one of the most humiliating defeats ...
Camillus served as a censor, was elected to six consular tribuneships, appointed dictator five times, and enjoyed four triumphs. He toppled mighty Veii, ejected the ...